From 073e8fa7739ed453d6854b834f290c263a6cdb9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joseph Myers Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:31:50 +0000 Subject: Require binutils 2.25 or later to build glibc. This patch implements a requirement of binutils >= 2.25 (up from 2.22) to build glibc. Tests for 2.24 or later on x86_64 and s390 are removed. It was already the case, as indicated by buildbot results, that 2.24 was too old for building tests for 32-bit x86 (produced internal linker errors linking elf/tst-gnu2-tls1mod.so). I don't know if any configure tests for binutils features are obsolete given the increased version requirement. Tested for x86_64. * configure.ac (AS): Require binutils 2.25 or later. (LD): Likewise. * configure: Regenerated. * sysdeps/s390/configure.ac (AS): Remove version check. * sysdeps/s390/configure: Regenerated. * sysdeps/x86_64/configure.ac (AS): Remove version check. * sysdeps/x86_64/configure: Regenerated. * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document requirement for binutils 2.25 or later. * INSTALL: Regenerated. --- NEWS | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 22c43f5..ba3e77b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ Version 2.26 C Library is GCC 4.9. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library. +* The minimum GNU Binutils version that can be used to build this version of + the GNU C Library is Binutils 2.25. + * Support is added, on powerpc64le, x86_64, x86 and ia64, for interfaces supporting the _Float128 type from ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Most of the interfaces are taken from TS 18661-3. The type-generic macros in -- cgit v1.1